Assessment of source of air, water, and land pollution - Part I : Rapid inventory techniques in environmental pollution | WHO FEP CCTNET J-A DISTR LIMITED English only 4-5 3 Environmental Technology Series Assessment of Sources of Air Water and Land Pollution A Guide to Rapid Source Inventory Techniques AND THEIR Use in Formulating Environmental Control Strategies Part One Rapid Inventory Techniques IN Environmental Pollution BY Alexander p. Economopoulos Democritos University of Thrace . . _ _ World Health Organization Geneva 1993 is _ yp Ị u 3 . AI ọ Wfirld Health Organization International Atomic Énsrgy Agoncy United Nanons Industrial Development Organiianon Dear Recipient The World Health Organization is pleased to provide you with the latest revision to its rapid assessment manual Assessment of Sources of Air Water and Land Pollution. This document revises an earlier publication Management and Control of the Environment WHO PEP 89 1 and was developed under WHO s Global Environmental Technology Network GETNET . GETNET is a programme to enable authorities at the local regional and national levels to identify assess and take actions on their own to prevent or eliminate environmental problems which threaten public health. In 1986 the World Health Organization teamed with three other United Nations agencies - United Nations Environment Programme UNEP United Nations Industrial Development Organization UNIDO and the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA to form the Inter-Agency Project on Risk Management. The purpose of this programme is to develop an integrated approach to the identification prioritization and minimization of important industrial hazards in a given area. This publication represents WHO s contribution to the Inter-Agency Project We hope that this publication will be beneficial in identifying priorities for future efforts to reduce environmental pollution in your area WHO is committed to continually updating the rapid assessment programme and to developing future improvements to the document such as training modules and simplified computer programmes for .
